Executive Summary Supply base reduction and supplier performance measurement can be useful tools in developing closer relationships with suppliers. After successfully reducing its supply base, one company in the transportation industry achieved additional value from its supply base by utilizing a supplier performance measurement system with its remaining suppliers. This best practices report br...

Structural damage detection methods using vibration measurements have been developed for decades. Measurement selections may affect damage detection results, because inevitable uncertainties are involved in vibration testing. A new sensor placement index is defined as the ratio of two parameters, namely, the contribution of measurement points to a Fisher information matrix, and the damage sensi...

Success factors for measurement programs as identified in the literature typically focus on the ‘internals’ of the measurement program: incremental implementation, support from management, a well-planned metrics framework, and so on. However, for a measurement program to be successful within its larger organizational context, it has to generate value for the organization. This implies that atte...

ffihe arc of history is increasingIL clear; health care is shifting focus from the volume of services delivered to the value created for patients, with "value" defined as the outcomes achieved relative to the costs.1 But progress has been slow and halting, partly because measurement of outcomes that matter to patients, aside from survival, remains limited. And for many conditions, death is a ra...

Elastography: Measurement Repeatability and Normative Value Yohei Yamamoto, Satoshi Yamaguchi, MD, PhD, Takahisa Sasho, MD, PhD, Taisuke Fukawa, Yuta Muramatsu, Shunsuke Mukoyama, Yorikazu Akatsu, Jo Katsuragi, Jun Endo, Hiroko Hoshi, Kenji Takahashi, Kazuhisa Takahashi. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, Fu...

A brief discussion is given of measurement within the context of a theory of “beables”, e.g. theories of de Broglie, Bohm, Bell, Vink, and also “modal” theories. It is shown that even in an ideal von Neumann measurement of a beable, the measured value may not agree with the value which the beable had prior to the measurement. 1 Participating Guest, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory e-mail: ...

In recent years, the concept of relationship value has attracted increasing attention among marketing researchers and practitioners alike. Despite a growing body of literature in this area, no generally accepted conceptualization of relationship value has emerged from the marketing literature. The present paper investigates the theoretical foundations of relationship value and identifies seven ...

Many systems of systems (SoS) occur today through the collaboration of multiple stakeholders, without any clear authority or direction at the SoS level. Examples include a supply chain, an airport, and the Internet. Because of the uncontrolled interactions, such a SoS exhibits complexity behaviors such as reflexivity, emergence, self-organization, and adaptation. This paper presents underlying ...